Re: [android-security-discuss] Re: Privilege Escalation Damage Reduction?

2011-08-16 Thread Thomas Cannon
Hi Earlence, I think the approach has merit for certain cases. If, after an exploit is run and the device is rooted in the typical ways Android is currently rooted, then checking for the elevation could detect that something is wrong after the fact. I don't think this is the best way to do it

Re: [android-security-discuss] Limit access to private CA certificate

2011-08-16 Thread Brian Carlstrom
There currently isn't a general way to install a CA on the device for use by arbitrary apps. Even the main feature request that I'm tracking doesn't really discuss having a CA that is only visible to a subset of apps: http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=11231 if that is what you

Re: [android-discuss] Curious reaction from my users

2011-08-16 Thread Kevin Chadwick
On Mon, 15 Aug 2011 07:42:07 -0700 (PDT) John Coryat cor...@gmail.com wrote: Having the load balancing done at the app level is more efficient. True, you want to keep it as close to the source but of course no app has a complete picture and you could still get spikes. Sustained traffic is

[android-discuss] make a screenshot

2011-08-16 Thread Mihamina Rakotomandimby
Hi all, On my Galaxy S, Gingerbread, I have noticed once that I could make a screenshot by pressing the home key. Great... But then I pressed back then it disapeared, and I dont know how to reproduce it. Would you? Thank you. -- RMA. -- You received this message because you are

Re: [android-discuss] make a screenshot

2011-08-16 Thread Appaholics
If you want to take screenshots look at my tutorial at http://www.appaholics.in/lets-take-a-screenshot/. I can't help you with the current issue otherwise, sorry. Thanks On Tue, Aug 16, 2011 at 1:10 PM, Mihamina Rakotomandimby miham...@rktmb.org wrote: Hi all, On my Galaxy S, Gingerbread,

Re: [android-discuss] make a screenshot

2011-08-16 Thread Aladin Q
Speaking of which, I find the (cap)ability to take screenshot on Android (mobile and/or tablet) a big security issue; eavesdropping becomes a feature in this case. Of course, a lot of users want this feature. And there are already applications which act as DDMS to reach the screen capture

Re: [android-discuss] Re: Android 2.2 wifi hotspot API

2011-08-16 Thread Aladin Q
There is no official/public API at this time, but according to this linkhttp://stackoverflow.com/questions/3023226/android-2-2-wifi-hotspot-api (2.2) and this onehttp://stackoverflow.com/questions/7048922/android-2-3-wifi-hotspot-api (2.3), it's technically possible (but not recommended) to

Re: [android-discuss] Curious reaction from my users

2011-08-16 Thread Chris Lang
My question is why would the app use the load balancing, that should be happening at the server end, not on the app side. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Android Discuss group. To post to this group, send email to android-discuss@googlegroups.com. To

Re: [android-discuss] Curious reaction from my users

2011-08-16 Thread John Coryat
My question is why would the app use the load balancing, that should be happening at the server end, not on the app side. I'm no expert in the art of load balancing, that's for sure. I chose to use the client side as it seemed to require less resources than the server side, plus

Re: [android-discuss] Curious reaction from my users

2011-08-16 Thread Kevin Chadwick
On Tue, 16 Aug 2011 09:35:42 -0700 (PDT) John Coryat cor...@gmail.com wrote: Essentially, what I do for load balancing is to randomly select a server to use for the client session. That will guarantee (or just about) an even distribution of requests to the servers. It seems to work and I've

Re: [android-discuss] Curious reaction from my users

2011-08-16 Thread John Coryat
With the old version, the server never actually crashed, but did go above loadavg of around 4 (max acceptable) on occasion. We're talking 250,000 to 500,000 hits per day with peaks in the 1000's per minute. With the newer version, the servers are in good shape and everything flows quite well.

Re: [android-discuss] Curious reaction from my users

2011-08-16 Thread Tim Mensch
On 8/16/2011 10:35 AM, John Coryat wrote: Essentially, what I do for load balancing is to randomly select a server to use for the client session. That will guarantee (or just about) an even distribution of requests to the servers. It seems to work and I've used this method for years on web

[android-discuss] Re: Using EMFs in Android

2011-08-16 Thread rich friedel
EMF is unbelievable!!! I have no idea about using Windows Meta files in Android. I guess you could convert them using something like ImageMagickhttp://www.imagemagick.org/script/index.php, jmagick http://www.jmagick.org. Sorry that's about all I have... -- You received this message because

Re: [android-discuss] make a screenshot

2011-08-16 Thread rich friedel
How is a screenshot capable application inherently any more insecure than say a keyboard application? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Android Discuss group. To view this discussion on the web visit